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C++ Windows - posting to application event log

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Is there anything special that needs to be done to post to the Windows Applicationevent log? Using some boilerplate code that doesn't get any error, but not seeing anything in the log.

I had to set up the policy.txt file to allow file access and to run an external application, but didn't see anything in the docs about event log access.

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Andy24242931vrvhAuthor

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Actually, I was mistaken; it is getting access denied.

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Andy24242931vrvhAuthor

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code below. The handle returned from OpenEventLog is NULL and GetLastError returns 5, which is access denied.

DWORD dwLastError = 0;

int PostToEventLog(string sMessage, bool bErr)

{

HANDLE hHandle = OpenEventLog(NULL, "Application");

if (NULL != hHandle)

{

int eventtype;

if (bErr)

eventtype = EVENTLOG_ERROR_TYPE;

else

eventtype = EVENTLOG_SUCCESS;

if (!ReportEvent(hHandle, eventtype, 0, 0, NULL, 1, 0, (LPCTSTR *)sMessage.c_str(), NULL))

{

return -1;

}

CloseEventLog(hHandle);

}

else

{

dwLastError = GetLastError();

return (int)dwLastError;

}

return 0;

}

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Thom Parker

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This is an Acrobat Developer forum. Are you running this code from within an Acrobat Plug-in?

If not, then you are in the wrong place.

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